Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch> writes: > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type M-x man and then write the buffer to a file with C-x w . Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. Christoph